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Word: convert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: Sophomore center Tim McMohan hyperextended his knee and is doubtful for Saturday's game with Yale... The Harvard power play continued to flounder. The Crimson failed to convert on all six of its extra-man opportunities, bringing its horrendous power play conversion rate to under 10 percent. At Bright Center Dartmouth 0 0 0-0 Harvard...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Icemen Level Lowly Dartmouth, 4-0 | 2/2/1984 | See Source »

...million when it was proposed in 1969, has already cost some $1.4 billion and is not expected to be completed until 1986, eleven years behind schedule. Taking this into account, CG&E and the other two power companies building Zimmer announced at week's end that they will convert the plant to a coal-burning facility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Fissures | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...great tragedy." Said Secretary of State George Shultz: "It is unacceptable for one country to fire into another at people and end up killing someone." Still, Shultz declared that the U.S. had no "plan or instinct" to retaliate militarily. Explained a White House aide: "No one wants to convert this incident into a Tonkin Gulf affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off Course and Under Fire | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...open in 1985. So far, local taxpayers have escaped all but 3% of the estimated $480 million in costs; the state and the Federal Government are picking up the rest. Says James Maloney, former executive director of the Port Authority Transit of Allegheny County: "We expect people to convert to public transit for the first time in their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mass Transit Makes a Comeback | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...when the Crimson did get a chance to put the ball up in the first half, it usually didn't help a great deal--thanks to a pretty awful 24 percent shooting average. In fact, during one stretch, Harvard failed to convert a field goal for close to eight minutes. When the first-half buzzer finally sounded, the Crimson had only posted 16 points on the scoreboard, trailing--rather luckily--by only seven...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Not so Surprising! | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

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